New Baby

New Routines and a Special Delivery

It's a little silly to talk about finding balance (a dirty mommy word in my book) with a newborn, 3 big kids, a puppy, a marriage, and a career to manage. Elusive as it might be, striving for equality and the yin to my yang...

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Restore

There are so many layers to our days, most of which get discarded like tear sheets floating to the floor in the room that holds the master drawing board. Moments that I should be enjoying and building upon end up crumpled and pitched into the...

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Momma Loves: New Baby Edition

Things have been pretty heavy around here, and whenever I start feeling suffocated I just want to do something mindless. So I either shop or turn on Bravo. TV watching hasn't been much of an option since I'm working and mothering most of the day,...

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Exchanging Thoughts instead of Things

Marriage has been one of the greatest learning experiences (read: challenges) of my lifetime. Justin and I didn't know each other all that well when we tied the knot less than a year after we met, so much of our getting-to-know-you time happened in warp...

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Celebrating Zoe

This post is brought to you by Target. Get More Cuuuute with Hello Kitty at Target. It's really wild having two daughters. I still haven't wrapped my head around it quite yet, but between me, Zoe, my mom and my sister-we are very, very excited! So much girl...

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Theo and Beau Welcome Evangeline

I've been wanting to share with you the day that we brought Evvie home, but it's been a little raw for me up until recently. That day was so hectic, hardly the kind of serene and sweet "coming home" celebration we had hoped for, but...

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This House

I've been downloading a lot of my mother's music lately. That nostalgia has been cushioning the walls of my mind like a thick security blanket as my emotions barrel around like wild horses. I can still hear the way her Crosby Stills Nash & Young and...

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Finding Normal

Walking into the our athletic club to take the kids swimming yesterday, a woman passed us and remarked "Wow, four kids. That ain't for the faint of heart." Little did she know exactly how faint in the heart I've been feeling the last week. It's...

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Preparing our Natural Nursery with Honest

This post was sponsored by The Honest Company. To learn more about their products, click here. I got into the car yesterday after swim lessons, knowing we had a 45-minute drive ahead of us and I somehow misplaced the diapers. Beau is slowly learning to...

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Re-Emerging as a Mother of Three

The last five weeks since Beau was born have been filled with love, laughter, exploration, frustration, exasperation and many, many lessons. Jack and Zoe have been troopers as we grow and mold our lives to accommodate this new little being into our family. We've done everything...

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